Interviewer Training Guidelines of Multinational Survey Programs: A Total Survey Error Perspective

Abstract: Typically, interviewer training is implemented in order to minimize interviewer effects and ensure that interviewers are well prepared to administer the survey. Leading professional associations in the survey research landscape recommend the standardized implementation of interviewer training. Some large-scale multinational survey programs have produced their own training guidelines to ensure a comparable level of quality in the implementation of training across participating countries. However, the length, content, and methodology of interviewer training guidelines are very heterogeneous. In this paper, we provide a comparative overview of general and study-specific interviewer training guidelines of three multinational survey programs (ESS, PIAAC, SHARE). Using total survey error (TSE) as a conceptual framework, we map the general and study-specific training guidelines of the three multinational survey programs to components of the TSE to determine how they target the reduction o

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Interviewer Training Guidelines of Multinational Survey Programs: A Total Survey Error Perspective ; volume:14 ; number:1 ; year:2020 ; pages:35-60 ; Veröffentlichungsversion ; begutachtet (peer reviewed) ; Methods, data, analyses ; 14, Heft 1 (2020), 35-60

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Ackermann-Piek, Daniela ; Silber, Henning ; Daikeler, Jessica ; Martin, Silke ; Edwards, Brad

Further information

• DOI: 10.12758/mda.2020.01
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021020515420275205531
• Rights: Open Access; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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